Local health center awarded more than $1 million

On Tuesday, HHS announced that it has awarded more than $29 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 48 new community health centers across California, the Merced Sun-Star reports (Merced Sun-Star, 8/11).

“Community health centers in Ohio and across the U.S. are critical access points for underserved patients”, said Brown “This funding will help Family Health Care of Northwest Ohio continue to provide local residents with quality and affordable primary and preventive health care services”. Today, health centers serve more than 23 million Americans, including about seven million children and 260,000 veterans in more than 9,200 communities across the country. These facilities offer primary care, behavioral health and oral health services, which studies have shown meet the highest standard of patient care.

Livingston Community Health is one of 1,200 community health centers celebrating National Health Center Week, from August. 9-15. In 2015, HRSA has distributed 13 awards totaling almost $10 million in Health Center Program funds.

Health West recently built new community health centers in Pocatello and Chubbuck. In 2014 alone, health centers served over 300,000 patients, accounting for nearly 1 million patient visits.

Froedtert plans to give an additional $3 million for initiatives to improve access to care in Milwaukee, Waukesha and Washington counties.

The future is bright for Livingston Community Health.

Today, there are working families in our waiting room receiving affordable health care thanks to the affirmative vote of our elected officials, dedicated Crescent employees, an engaged board of directors and sustaining members. This includes those who have barriers to medical/dental care such as: low income, cultural or language barriers, no transportation, or may be uninsured. Over 60 percent of health centers are recognized as patient-centered medical homes (PCMH), something that i2i Systems strongly supports through its advanced and detailed i2iTracks software prevalidation-which provides health centers auto credits across a multitude of NCQA PCMH factors.